From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Michael Willhide <Moridin@psu.edu>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Easy question about drivers
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 22:55:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200002042155.WAA07934@denx.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Feb 2000 12:23:16 EST." <B4C07534.2AA2%Moridin@psu.edu>
In message <B4C07534.2AA2%Moridin@psu.edu> you write:
>
> Are video cards considered character devices?
Yes.
In simple words, a device is either a block device, or a charcter
device.
A block device is something which can hold a filesystem.
You cannot make a filesystem on a video card.
Ergo: a video card is a character device.
Wolfgang Denk
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2000-02-04 17:23 Easy question about drivers Michael Willhide
2000-02-04 18:31 ` Rich Lafferty
2000-02-04 21:55 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
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